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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Unabashedly oldschool (tragically unhip) blogging
For the record, in response to Wired's claim (h/t Instapundit) that blogs are "so 2004":
My blog has always been for "long-form writing," as my masthead conspicuously warns. I'm generally satisfied with how my posts fare in search engine rankings. I don't think my commenters are 'tards. I don't have a Facebook entry, and neither do I Twitter, although when properly amused I may chortle.
I have no aspiration to put up 30 posts per day, nor to turn a profit through advertising. I am perfectly content for such readers who may find their way here from time to time to do so because they hope I might provide them with sufficiently "clever, insightful, witty prose to compete with [the] Huffington [Post] and The New York Times" — neither of whom I hold in high regard, and both of whom surely need all sorts of further alternatives on the internet. Ultimately, however, I write here for my own enjoyment.
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(1) Joanna made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 2:58:51 PM | Permalink
I, for one, am happy to read your tragically unhip blog musings.
(2) Lorraine made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 3:07:58 PM | Permalink
And I second that. I found you reading Hugh Hewitt's column and I always check back to see if you have anything new up. You are wonderful to read!
(3) Joe made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 4:14:39 PM | Permalink
First time, long time. Keep up the good work! (and I look forward to your thoughts on the IL gov corruption mess that broke today)
(4) Paul_In_Houston made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 5:30:52 PM | Permalink
"I have no aspiration to put up 30 posts per day,"
Does this imply that you may be capable of walking or driving without a cell phone jammed against yous ear?
That would make you a member of a true minority.
(5) Mark L made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 5:37:36 PM | Permalink
Let me third, the motion on the floor. I feel I have learned valuable things from your unhip postings -- only some of which had to do with the subject of the posting.
(6) Mark L made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 5:37:56 PM | Permalink
Let me third, the motion on the floor. I feel I have learned valuable things from your unhip postings -- only some of which had to do with the subject of the posting.
(7) Maura made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 6:50:23 PM | Permalink
Yaaaay! You're blogging again!...
Understand that one of the reasons I come here to read is that I know for a certain I will find you making a high quality, intelligent and Truthful essay about one or another of the many issues we are confronted with in these times.
Thank you!
(8) DRJ made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 7:56:36 PM | Permalink
Wired is wrong. Bloggers like Beldar are the cool kids on the internet block.
(9) LibbyLA made the following comment | Dec 9, 2008 9:07:02 PM | Permalink
Obviously, I am not hip. I don't Flickr, Twitter, or Facebook/MySpace... This is one of the few blogs that I visit regularly and I'm always delighted when there's something new to read. Keep up the great work, Beldar.
(10) A.W. made the following comment | Dec 10, 2008 8:10:20 AM | Permalink
i like long form blogging better. i have a few breaking news sources i look to, but i also want content from bloggers and i appreciate the stuff you write, even when i disagree.
Btw, I would love to hear if you have any insight on what is happening in Illinois right now.
(11) Dale MacInnis made the following comment | Dec 10, 2008 4:53:16 PM | Permalink
Amen. Amen. And, amen.
(12) Kate0j made the following comment | Dec 10, 2008 9:00:31 PM | Permalink
Beldarblog is consistently among the most entertaining and enlightening blogs on the 'net - let others nibble on the chicken nuggets; some of us prefer a Texas t-bone!
(13) Donna B. made the following comment | Dec 10, 2008 9:59:57 PM | Permalink
You'll always be one of the cool kids in my book. Way back in 2004, I started my first blog. You were the first blog to link to a post I wrote (having to do with Kerry's discharge). New bloggers with 10 hits a day remember that sort of thing.
Twitter sounds like a very annoying thing. Facebook, however, I like. It's probably because nearly all my 'friends' are actually family.
(14) Leon Dixon made the following comment | Dec 11, 2008 10:09:14 AM | Permalink
If newspapers had talented people who could write with authority they wouldn't be in the fix they are. Tom Roeser has a blog which he writes with authority of a different sort on matters of Illinois corruption. MSM often does NOT tell us about what we need to know, however and that is where wired gets it wrong. I think Beldar puts it in your face. Unlike MSM he only writes about what he knows about.
The best blogs share that characteristic? And, we visit them because we are rewarded with truths we might not ever come to own without the blogger's zeal for truth as he sees it?
(15) Sgt. Andy made the following comment | Dec 11, 2008 1:27:40 PM | Permalink
Picked up on your blog during the '04 campaign. Keep up the good work!
(16) Jessie made the following comment | Dec 11, 2008 6:59:06 PM | Permalink
Good! There is no better way to write than for one's own amusement.
(17) Mike K made the following comment | Dec 11, 2008 8:00:20 PM | Permalink
I come by now and then to see what you have to say. Don't worry about twitter, even if Hugh is stoked on it. I blog for my own pleasure, too. You've probably had the same experience I have, where I go back and look at a post from a year ago and say to myself/yourself, "Say, that was pretty sharp!"
(18) stan made the following comment | Dec 12, 2008 10:12:30 AM | Permalink
For many years, I read the opinion pieces in the newspaper because they contained more useful factual information than was found on the front page. Most of the important information isn't a one day splash.
Fortunately, bloggers have demonstrated that well-educated amateurs (often lawyers) were substantially better than journalists and newspaper columnists at providing worthwhile insights. And exposing the bias, corruption, fraud and deceit that infects so much "journalism" today.
Today, the major news outlets are hemorrhaging credibility. Other than at blogs like Beldar's, where else would one find thoughtful analyses which expose the superficial, inaccurate, and misleading "conventional wisdom" which afflicts today's journalism?
(19) ExRat made the following comment | Dec 12, 2008 11:17:13 AM | Permalink
Thanks, Beldar. I post sporadically at best, when something raises my hackles or tickles me enough, and I feel inspired. Your statement of philosophy made me feel better about not writing on a more regular basis.
(20) David made the following comment | Dec 12, 2008 7:40:45 PM | Permalink
"Ultimately, however, I write here for my own enjoyment."
Or, as I say of my own blogging, "I do this to mollify the voices in my head."
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